The EAZA Executive Office is pleased to announce the publication of the EAZA Yearbook 2007/2008, the first ever online version. The Yearbook brings together detailed reports for almost all of EAZA's breeding programmes, with a total of 317 reports from our TAGs, EEPs and ESBs. (To find out more about the way EAZA's breeding programmes operate visit the Collection Planning section.) The new edition of the Yearbook covers a two year period, which reflects the need to catch up on a backlog that developed over the last couple of years.

This Yearbook has been produced using web-based tools from start to finish. The reports were supplied by the programme coordinators using an online report generator, the editing team did their work online, and the Yearbook itself is published only on the EAZA website. In taking this approach we avoided the need to install software on the PCs of hundreds of coordinators and, more significantly, avoided printing more than 850,000 pages. EAZA members and other interested individuals can download the complete Yearbook as a PDF or alternatively just open the chapters that are of relevance to them.

You can find the EAZA Yearbook 2007/2008 in the Collection Planning section of the website:

http://www.eaza.net/activities/cp/Pages/yearbook.aspx